Keesler Air Force Base
BIX · KBIX · Biloxi, Mississippi · Harrison County · map
Keesler Air Force Base is a private airport owned by Usaf in Biloxi, Mississippi, 33 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 7,630 feet of partially concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (Jet A with additives).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BIX · ICAO KBIX
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf
- Elevation
- 33 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · mon-fri 1400-0500z++, closed holidays.
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 2:00 pm to 0500z++; weekends, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- Jet A with additives; the services card below
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 7,630 × 150 ft | Partially concrete | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,600 ft
- Runway 22: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,000 ft
Radio frequencies
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.8 | Keesler |
| Tower | 120.75 | Keesler |
| Approach and departure arriving from headings 130 to 309 | 124.6 | Keesler |
| Approach and departure arriving from headings 310 to 129 | 127.5 | Keesler |
| Mobile and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.65 | Keesler |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars
- Oxygen
- bulk oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- cargo handling
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Gulfport-Biloxi International (8 nm west), Ocean Springs Airport (9 nm east), Trent Lott International (21 nm east), Diamondhead Airport (24 nm west).
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Gulfport-Biloxi International (8 nm west), Trent Lott International (21 nm east), Stennis International (28 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Mississippi · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Overhead 1500 feet; conventional 1000 feet.
- Closed holidays.
- Non standard length 2000 feet.
- Lighted water tower located 1775 feet right of centerline runway 04 and 2900 feet left of centerline runway 22.
- Caution: first 100 feet concrete spherical bollards located 440 feet southwest of cntln.
- Bash phase II in effective 1 jun - 30 sep; exp heavier bird act sunrise to sunset.
- Restricted: prior permission required all tran aircraft; contact afld mgmt dsn 597-2120. Taxiway east 50 feet width. Aircraft rinse facility (bird bath) taxiway C available to C130 and lrgr. Air crews contact gnd prior to aircraft eng start. All C130 or lrgr must face north on taxiway B for maintenance runs or eng RUN-UPS. pilots will avoid flying ovr usaf medical cntr located on back bay 1 NM east of runway and VA hospital on back bay 1 NM west of runway.
- Tran aircraft ron must arrival by 2100Z++ MON-FRI by 2200Z++ Sunday.
- Caution: marina trees hinder wind, LO wind speed on runway 22 when wind dir from 280-340. Dur augmentation/back up; ltd weather obsn to east and visibility mkr beyond 1 SM only available in the west to north sector, night flood light hinder cloud and visibility obsn, and ceil fre 100-200 feet LO than obsn on runway 22 approach from NOV-MAR.
- Misc: hngr space not available for svr weather. Comsec materials are not available.
- Jasu: 1(MA-1A); 3(A/M32-86A).
- Fluid: SP presair lpox lox.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Biloxi from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in Biloxi, Mississippi: 20 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 gyroplane. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Mississippi.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Biloxi 22 aircraft · 20 piston singles, 1 turboprops, 1 gyroplanes
- Vortex Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Mississippi 844 since 1982 · 89 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Mississippi 80 landing places
- Mississippi 2,601 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/BIX.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 30, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.